Multicultural NY

20 x 30
Watercolor

I am and have always been fascinated by people places and things, especially, landmark locations. This painting is a subway stop at Brighton Beach in the Coney Island neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. I was attracted to this site especially because of the signs there were different than I expected.  But, I soon learned that the signage caters to the area of its high population of Russian-speaking immigrants that have settled there.

The sights and sounds were exciting as usual that day.  The languages spoken and heard in New York are a cacophony of dialects and emphases, loud and soft, nevertheless, multicultural.  Other sounds here were automobile traffic on Brighton Beach Avenue and the B and D subway lines overhead. The crowd was either arriving for a day at the beach or the aquarium or simply a day of shopping or departing for parts onward.

This painting takes advantage of the location along with the people walking and the things that encircle it.  All in all, I accomplished the narrative theme, People Places and Things.
I’m quit happy with the result and I’m excited of the prospect of returning soon to the city, I can’t stay away.

I like the result and I hope others do as well.

Watercolor
20 x 30